Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes (born 1975 ) is a British journalist and writer .
Life
Emma Brockes studied English at college St Edmund Hall of Oxford University and graduated in 1997 from. She then worked as an editor at The Guardian newspaper and received several journalism awards, including the Philip Geddes Prize, an Oxford University Annual Award, the 2001 Young Journalist of the Year - British Press Award and she was Feature Writer of the year in 2002 .
Her first novel was published in 2007. She has been a freelance writer and journalist ever since and continues to write for the Guardian and the New York Times . She lives in New York City.
Works (selection)
- What Would Barbra Do? : how musicals changed my life? New York: HarperCollins, 2007
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She left me the gun: my mother's life before me . Penguin, 2013
- It never went back: the story of a family drama . Translation Sophie Zeitz. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-423-26016-9
- An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on my Solo Path to Motherhood . New York: Penguin Books, 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Emma Brockes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Emma Brockes in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Emma Brockes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Emma Brockes , website
- Emma Brockes , at The Guardian
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brockes, Emma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |